In the microeconomic literature substantial attention is cur rently paid to the problem of new firms' post-entry growth. This paper contributes to the literature by examining a large number of factors influencing the probability to grow of a sample of Italian firms born in the period 1999-2000....

In recent years European institutions have recommended governments to adopt demand-led innovation policies. A specific administrative instrument has been designed – the so called Pre-Commercial Public procurement (PCP) – allowing public administrations to purchase R&D services targeted to...